"I think it’s amazing what’s happened three of the last four years, but I tell you something, it’s easier to get to the top (than) stay there," Bowden said, according to AL.com. “The amazing thing is so far—and I say so far because I know it and he knows it—it can end any minute.

“He’ll have his hands full next year, people don’t understand that. When he loses a lot of people, and the chemistry and everything is so important, you know? Can he get the chemistry again of 'let’s go after the boys?' It’s a task, and I’m being honest with you, if I was an Alabama man I’d rather have it in his hands than anybody else I can think of.”